Firm strategies and path dependencies: an emerging economic geography of industrial data

Clark, Jennifer; Sudharsan, S.

doi:10.1080/00343404.2019.1619926

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“…Technologies for storing and processing big data, artificial intelligence, cyber‐physical systems, advanced use of software, or production technologies like 3D printing, are diffusing and placing pressure on many established industries, companies, professions, products, and processes. On the one hand, digitization has created “digital industries” like consumer electronics and continues to create digital industries, such as the industrial data generating and processing industry (Clark & Sudharsan, 2020). On the other hand, due to their widespread use, information and communication technologies (ICT)—especially the Internet—are often regarded as “General Purpose Technologies”, which drive follow‐up innovations in all industries (Bresnahan & Trajtenberg, 1995).…”

Section: Digitization and Interregional Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda

Haefner

Sternberg

2020

Geography Compass

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Digitization is an influential megatrend that is quickly and comprehensively transforming economic spaces worldwide. Its disruptive power has not yet been fully developed but, despite a lack of topical empirical or theoretical research, it nevertheless seems clear that it will significantly affect the economic order within and between economic spaces and places. Currently, digitization is high on the policy agenda in many countries. Several related programs and initiatives combine expansion and improvement of digital infrastructure with efforts to reduce spatial economic inequality and to facilitate a general catch‐up process for lagging (often rural) regions. However, the idea that digitization can reduce spatial inequality remains highly controversial. This study aims to focus on the economic geography implications of digitization and to enrich the existing literature in two ways. First, the study overviews the state of research on the spatial consequences of digitization. Deploying a comprehensive literature review, this section discusses the primary theoretical and empirical results from two contradictory narratives on the ability of digitization to reinforce the death of distance and thus reduce spatial inequality. Second, we develop a research agenda concerning select fields of research that could appropriately be addressed in the future by economic geographers. These fields include spatial economic digitization effects, digital competencies, entrepreneurial activities, and innovation activities in both urban and rural regions. Closing the research gaps would contribute to the development of much‐needed policy measures.

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Section: Digitization and Interregional Inequalitymentioning

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“…Many digitalized physical objects automatically generate and store data when used. Obtaining this data is difficult for researchers, but it would offer numerous options for researching where, how, and when digital technologies are being used (see Clark & Sudharsan, 2020).…”

Section: Research Agenda: Toward a Better Understanding Of Digitizatimentioning

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Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda

Haefner

Sternberg

2020

Geography Compass

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“…Here, they re-interrogate the concept of 'value' itself, theorizing it in terms of 'perceived worthiness of an activity/product/service to an economic agent'. Clark and Sudharsan (2019), too, move away from location decisions as the outcome of interest. Conducting a qualitative study, they focus on the optimization of firm performance within the power generation industry as perceived by key informants within the sector.…”

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The competitive advantage of regions: economic geography and strategic management intersections

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“…Both strategic management studies and economic geography articulate the relationship between regions and firm activities (Clark & Sudharsan, 2019). At the intersection of these two literatures is the question of how firm-level activity interacts within regions and how these factors interact to produce competitive advantages for a given region.…”

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“…Previously seen as part of a specialized 'data industry', the scale and influence of information and communication technology (ICT) and the wholesale public acceptance of lowcost digital technology has changed the economic potential of Big Data. Industries focused on technology, infrastructure, finance, manufacturing, insurance and energy are now treating these data as a form of capital (Sadowski, 2019) and the capacity to accumulate, process and use vast amounts of data has become a new landmark of strength for firms, cities, regions and countries (Clark & Sudharsan, 2019;Sadowski, 2019).…”

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Big Data and its potential role in regional growth: evidence from Great Britain

Morrissey

2020

Spatial Economic Analysis

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To understand the links between Big Data and economic development is to focus on the knowledge that may be created from Big Data and the knowledge workers who can produce and use this knowledge to maximum economic impact. Using location quotients, this paper finds that the current geographical concentration of employees with skills to generate value from Big Data means that economic opportunities will be centred in the London and South East regions. In contrast, Big Data opportunities will be less important for the already lagging regions in Great Britain.

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Firm strategies and path dependencies: an emerging economic geography of industrial data

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda

Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda

The competitive advantage of regions: economic geography and strategic management intersections

Big Data and its potential role in regional growth: evidence from Great Britain

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